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B. L. MEGILL.

GAGE PIN FOR PRINTING PRBSSES. N0. 377,951. Patented Febi l l, 1888.

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C V I WHHESSES: l nvenrfi l f ala-A g UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD L. MEGILL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

' GAGE-PIN FOR PRlNTlNG-PRESSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,951, dated February14, 1888. Application filed April 24, 1885. Renewed January 26, 1887.Again renewed August 6, 1887. Serial No. 246,283. (No model.)

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. MEGILL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Gage- Pin for Platen Printing-Presses, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a gage-pin formed of a single piece of wire ofany suitable pattern, the central or nearly central portion of which isbent into angles to produce an upright gage to regulate the sheets,while the remaining ends of the wire are formed, oneinto a prong and theother into a loop, to overlap said prong.

Figure 1 represents my new gage-pin in perspective, secured at the edgeof the platenpaper with most of the rear portion of the gagepinprojecting beyond. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the gage-pin alone.Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are top plan views showing the loop in each shapeddifferent from that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, but all having the sameresult. Figs.

6 and 7 are perspective views of the gage-pin,

showing other forms or modifications.

The gage-pin when completed is about an ,inch long, and the parts areproportionately formed, although they may each be varied.

The prong A is first bent, as shown,at a right angle to the upright gageB, and the wire is then curved around forward, as at D, (although thiscurve may be omitted in some of the sizes, as in Fig. 7,) then downwardto the side of said prong A, and outward around and across at about themiddle of the length of said prong, and'around and back on the oppositeside, ending at or near the gage B, which forms the loop 0. I 4

In Figs. 1 and 2 the. loop 0 is triangular, in

Fig. 3 it is round, or almost so. In Fig. 4the 0 wire is carriedcrosswise at the back of they gage B and the loop started from the otherside of the prong. Fig. 4 also shows the loop at the point where itcrosses the prong crimped inwardly. In Fig. 5 the same is crimped out- 5wardly. v The prong A of the gage-pin is inserted through and under theplaten-paper up to gage B; but the loop 0 rides over the upper layer,

bearing down on the same along at each side of the prong. The gage-pinwill consequently, hold well and upright when fastened very near theedge of the platen-paper, as shown in Fig.

1. It will also hold well on any other part of its surface, and it isintended to supply the de- 5 5 mand for a cheap and effective gage-pinfor general use.

Although in most of the figures the corner of the wire between the gageB and the prong A is a simple right angle, it may have the drop curve,(shown in Fig. 6 at E;) or the prong may have a slight upward curve, asshown in Fig. 7.

I do not claim the drop curve feature in thisv application, havingclaimed it in another now pending.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- A gage-pin made of a singlepiece of wire,

the central or nearly central portion of which l is bent in the form ofan upright gage, B, of one end is formedthe prong A and of the other enda loop to overlap said prong, substantially as herein described.

EDWARD L. MEGILL. Witnesses:

W. F. OLLIFFE, E. A. GIBSON.

